Heat-insulator for handled vessels.



H. l. CLULEE.

HEAT INSULATOR FOR HANDLED VESSELS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 9. 19m.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY I. CLULEE, OF WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO B. WALLACE & SONS MFG. 00., OF WALLINGFOR-D, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

HEAT-INSULATOR FOR HANDLED VESSELS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1919.

Application filed September 9, 1918. Serial No. 253,198.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY I. CLULEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Wallingford, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Heat-Insulators for Handled Vessels, and do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application and represent, in-

Figure l, a side. view of a portion of a handled vessel having insulators applied thereto in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2, an enlarged sectional View of one of the insulators shown in connection with one end of the handle, and with one of the handle-lugs.

Fig. 3, a face view of one of the insulator disks. Fig. 4:, a side view of the same.

Fig. 5, a face view of the insulator-socket.

Fig. 6, a side view of the same.

Fig. 7, a face view of the insulator plug.

Fig. 8, a side view of the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in heat insulators for handled vessels such as tea, coffee, and hot water pots, and particularly for such vessels of this character when formed from metal and provided with metal handles. The object of the invention is a simple arrangement of parts which may be readily formed and assembled, and which will prevent the heat passing from the vessel to the handle, and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claim.

These insulators are located between the ends of a handle 10 and lugs 11 and 12 which are secured to a vessel 13 in the usual manner. Each insulator consists of a disk 14 of fiber, or other non-conductor of heat; a socket member 15 and a plug member 16 which correspond to the form of the handle to which they are to be applied. The disk has a central rivet hole 17. The socket member 15 is formed from metal and has a flange 18 which is turned over the disk 14: so as to partly inclose the same. In the center of the socket is a cup shaped projection 19, the bottom of which is struck inward so as to bear upon one face of the disk 14, and this proectlon has a central rivet hole 20. The plug member 16 has a cup shaped projection 21, the bottom of which is struck inward so as to bear upon the fiat disk 14, and in the center of this projection is a rivet hole 22. The disk 14 is placed in the socket member 15 which covers one face of the disk and the plug member 16 is placed against the opposite face of the disk and the-three parts firmly connected together by a rivet 23. It will be noted that a space is left between the edge of the plug member and edge of the socket.

member so that the two parts are insulated from each by the disk, except as they are connected by the rivet which is so small that the amount of heat that it would conduct is immaterial. The projections on the socket and plug members are inserted into the ends of the handle and into the lugs on the vessel, and secured by soldering, or in any other desired manner, so as to firmly secure the handles to the vessels. These insulators are water tight, readily assembled and applied, and by striking in the bottoms of the projections on the socket and plug, they can be firmly seated in the ends of the handle, and in the lugs on the vessel.

I claim An insulator for handled vessels, comprising a fiat disk of insulating material, a socket member partly inclosing the disk, and a plug member, the said socket and plug members each formed with an outward cupshaped projection, the bottoms of the projections extending inward to a bearing on the disk, and a rivet extending through the center of the parts, the ends of the rivet being seated in the bottoms of the said projections.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribmg witnesses.

HARRY I. CLULEE.

Witnesses:

W. L. INGRAHAM, HARRY L. BURT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Infants, Washington, D. 0." 

